Bodyguard

I had this idea the other day that a player could assign themselves as a bodyguard to another player for only defends. The bodyguard jumping in attacks would obviously have an unfair advantage.

So, in short: If I assigned myself to someone, and they were to get attacked, I would jump in automatically to help fend off the attacker.

There could be an entire economy based on this, older players offering protection services and the like, or older friends helping out younger ones.

It could be learned as an education bachelor, or a passive job perk like revives currently are, and maybe cost like 1 nerve/15min or something? I'm not entirely sure on this part of the idea, figured maybe post it out there and see if the community likes it first :)

it's def creative - would solve a lot of problems new players face. would def change the strategy of bounties lol

Awesome idea

This is an epic idea!

God no - just no. Can you imagine how much this would have the crap abused out of it in factions for starters - ie. the stronger players in a faction "assign" themselves to defend the weaker players, thus making it harder for the opposing faction to chain them back.

You currently live or die on your own stats and that's how it should stay.

This is what should happened, to what I think could help out with possible abuses. The bodyguard should be paid by X amount of money, where X is determined by advantage factors (awards, levels). The idea on advantage factor is still a scratchy idea, and it could ultimately be anything.
The payday is should be like other things in Torn, daily.
New, or old, players could hire any players that holds the bodyguard perk (or something).
It's a simple ideal. The stronger the bodyguard, the more expensive it is to have him/her around.

Also, the client should have an extra icon, where every player could see. The Protection icon. Though whether the bodyguard profile should be reviewable or not, I'll let others decide.

There are 3 ways the bodyguard can decline the offer.
1) The client is in dept for 3 days.
2) The client attacked the bodyguard.
3) The bodyguard decline the offer, from the very beginning.

I know this idea isn't mine, and I probably make it sound like it is. I just like this bodyguard idea. It adds options for players, and gives out further strategy to the game.

R+

This would just be abused, as usual the people with the most cash would benefit the most and it would destroy faction wars. The logistics alone just to code it would be enormous for example if the bodyguard wins who gets the defend? if the client is attacked in another country does the bodyguard still step in even though they would most likely still be in torn? if the bodyguard is travelling themselves or in jail or hosp when the client is attacked do they still step in? there would be way to many variables to ever make this a viable system and I can only imagine how much it would be abused during competitions

If this was put in there needs to be a limit on how many people you can be assigned to protect at a time. If it was only one or two this would keep the benefits that this could bring but has enough control on it so it is not abused. Also maybe a limit on how many times you can jump in a day. It probably should cost energy.
If a body guard steps in it would not count as a defend for anyone, If it did then it would be a problem with bounties. Otherwise the bodyguard would put bounties on the low level and then wait for lower level players to attack and then bam 10 defends either for the bodyguard or the protected. That is why it would not count as a defend.

there is a way to protect yourself with out this,, its called training

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Cool way to make money, why not